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The lover with the myrtle sprays

Adorns his crisped tresses.

Drayton.

Along the crisped shades and bowers.

Milton.

The crisped brooks,

Rolling on orient pearl and sands of gold.

Milton.

3. To make crisp or brittle, as in
cooking.

Crisping iron, an instrument by which
hair or any textile fabric is crisped. -- Crisping
pin, the simplest form of crisping iron.
Is. iii. 22.

Crisp, v. i. To undulate or
ripple. Cf. Crisp, v. t.

To watch the crisping ripples on the
beach.

Tennuson.

Crisp, n. That which is crisp
or brittle; the state of being crisp or brittle; as, burned to a
crisp; specifically, the rind of roasted pork;
crackling.

{ Cris"pate (kr?s"p?t), Cris"pa*ted (-p?-
t?d), } a. [L. crispatus, p. p. of
crispare.] Having a crisped appearance; irregularly
curled or twisted.

Cris*pa"tion (kr?s-p?"sh?n), n.


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